Stainton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Stainton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

• Adwick [le Street]
• Adwick [upon Dearne]
• Armthorpe
• Aston
• Attercliffe
• Auckley
• Aughton [Hall]
• Austerfield
• Balby
• Barnbrough
• Barnby [Dun]
• Bentley
• Bilham [House]
• Billingley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Stainton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent stone (ON steinn). Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the stone farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Stainton.

Listed Buildings Near Stainton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Stainton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Bumper Castle - 1.2 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Stainton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 6 lie within roughly a mile of Stainton:

• Cairnfield 200m east of Hazelshaw House - 0.73 km
• Cairnfield 500m north east of Bumper Castle - 0.74 km
• Cairnfield and three round barrows 800m south west of Fangdale Beck - 0.93 km
• Round barrow 180m south west of Sike House - 1.16 km
• Round barrow 200m south west of Sike House - 1.18 km
• Round barrow 590m west of Honey Hill Farm - 1.51 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Wadworth - 4.1 km N
• Hawnby - 4.1 km S
• Arden Hall - 4.2 km SW
• Loversall - 5.4 km N
• Dale Town - 5.4 km S
• Murton - 5.4 km S